New ‘Medicare for All’ House Caucus Formed to Promote Single Payer Healthcare
A large group of progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives established a new “Medicare for All” caucus on Thursday morning. This...
A large group of progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives established a new “Medicare for All” caucus on Thursday morning. This...
Christine Todd Whitman served as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President George W. Bush back in 2001–2003. With experience...
Following the resignation of Scott Pruitt, the embattled former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), President Donald Trump announced that the...
Levels of highly toxic mercury contamination in Atlantic bluefin tuna are rapidly declining, according to a new study. That trend does...
Solar industry, renewable energy and environmental justice organizations and advocates applauded a decision today by the California Public Utilities Commission...
Wells Fargo was ordered to pay California employees $97 million for violating the state’s labor laws. Judge Percy Anderson handed...
A letter released this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association gives a preliminary accounting of Donald Trump’s environmental...
The entire Trump family has been named in a lawsuit regarding charitable fraud by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood...
Writing in The Guardian this week, climate activist Bill McKibben suggests the world may miss its last realistic opportunity to...
On Monday, a state judge ordered the Maine Department of Health and Gov. Paul LePage (R) to follow through on a...
Charles French, the president of the Greensboro City Workers’ Union, took a mic and told the crowd to go to...
Strikes have taken place at McDonald’s and TGI Friday’s restaurants across the UK in recent months. These strikes are the...
Donald Trump is deliberately forcing millions of Americans into financial ruin, cruelly depriving them of food and other basic protections...
Newly released emails show senior Environmental Protection Agency officials working closely with a conservative group that dismisses climate change to...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants to roll back an Obama-era rule meant to reduce the risks of chemical disasters...
The first comprehensive study of the massive pay gap between the US executive suite and average workers has found that...
The request for Scott Pruitt’s extraordinary level of security didn’t come from the inspector general, and wasn’t the result of...
Wise leaders facing a crisis want to suss out every bit of solid information they can about the parameters of...
The Senate Judiciary Committee released hundreds of transcripts and details from its investigation into the infamous June 2016 meeting at...
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, said that Trump committed a certain Emoluments Clause...
Hundreds of low-wage workers, faith leaders, civil rights organizers and liberal activists were arrested in demonstrations in Washington and in...
An analysis of Sean Hannity’s real estate holdings found that he used evictions and eviction threats against poor to generate...
Trump promised to rein in drug prices. It was his only sensible campaign promise. But the plan he announced Friday...
AT&T paid Trump fixer Michael Cohen $600,000 for advice on its multibillion-dollar proposed merger with Time Warner, the Washington Post...
After reporting a net income of $234.4 million last year, billionaire investor Carl Icahn—a former regulatory adviser to President Donald...
A new bill aimed at bolstering unions’ power and ending abuses by employers was met with loud cheers in Washington,...
Oliver North, for you youthful types, was a central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, a Reagan administration scheme to smuggle...
Maine is a very interesting state, politically. On the one hand they have perhaps the most right-wing governor in the...
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is proposing to increase rent for millions of low-income tenants in government-subsidized housing and impose stricter...
When Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee on Friday released a report on Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election, we learned more information...
WASHINGTON ― House Chaplain Patrick Conroy was suddenly forced out of his job last week by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.),...
Mick Mulvaney, the man that Donald Trump personally picked to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, admitted to a room...
As right-wing advocacy groups embark on yet another campaign to sell the American public on the GOP’s corporate-friendly tax law...
In most American families led by couples, both parents are in the workforce. At the same time, nearly 1 in 4 U.S. children...
Joining a promising pro-democracy wave, a signature from Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday added New Jersey to the ranks...
A lawsuit filed in Colorado state court by the counties of Boulder and San Miguel and the city of Boulder...
As Americans rushed to pay their taxes on Tuesday before the official deadline, peace groups reminded the public of the...
While President Donald Trump attempts to place blame for the enduring opioid addiction crisis on immigrants, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)...
Donald Trump’s US businesses have raked in $15.1m in revenue from political groups and federal agencies since he began his...
President Donald Trump lobbied not to have sprinklers installed on the residential floors of his New York properties. After one...
In its first analysis of how the GOP tax plan will affect Americans’ personal income taxes alone, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center...
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt faces mounting pressure to resign amid ballooning scandals over his spending habits and a...
In light of President Donald Trump’s meeting with the Saudi crown prince Tuesday, it bears remembering that the Saudi royal...
A Flushing, Michigan, school district will soon be part of a solar project that is forecast to save the community...
America has had its share of crooks (Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon), bigots (Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan), and incompetents (Andrew...
Responding to an inquiry from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), the NRA admitted that they are taking foreign (read: Russian) money,...